The event is meant to inform residents about the pedestrian-related projects currently being discussed for Connecticut Avenue between Calvert Street Northwest and Chevy Chase Circle, Susie Taylor, president of the Cleveland Park Citizens Association, said in an e-mail.

CPCA is hosting the forum along with the Chevy Chase, Forest Hills and Woodley Park citizens associations.

Michael Reese, second district commander of the Metropolitan Police Department, and Lisa Sutter, traffic enforcement manager at MPD, will also attend to discuss law enforcement’s role in pedestrian safety along Connecticut.

The forum will be at Kogod Chapel in Adas Israel, at the intersection of Porter and Quebec streets in Cleveland Park.

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To me the most interesting part was the plans for many more traffic cameras. The police are not able to effectively enforce traffic laws. There are usually less than four cars out at any one time in Cleveland Park and enforcing speeding (fore example) on Connecticut Avenue ar a rush hour would cause massive traffic backups.

Now, the City is trying to break the oligopoly of the traffic camera manufacturers with a new RFP for equipment. After all, a traffic camera does a lot less than an iPhone and should not cost tens of thousands of dollars. New ‘apps’ that the City wants include include (a) stop sign enforcement, (b) not stopping and yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks and blocking intersections.

Most people do not realize that when they get a camera ticket they can now go on the internet and see the video that caused the ticket. A new study from the Insurance Institute shows that the DC cameras actually (radically) reduce injury and death and are there for safety and not for revenue. The head of the department said that her job was to change behavior and not to generate revenue. I think she may actually do it. Good for her.